Live Play Data

Primordial Hydra

· Creature — Hydra · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1097

Decks Running

464

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=165

18%

45%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 19

Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

1097 brought · 424 players

Brought to game

1097

Ever drawn

254

Reached battlefield

165

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 45% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=161) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=721).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=78).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +5.4pp; 95% confidence interval -1.6pp to +12.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

276 instances

3.3%

Library

27.2%

Battlefield

28.6%

Graveyard

10.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 175 decks
2 Zaxara, the Exemplary 64 decks
3 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 35 decks
4 Magus Lucea Kane 21 decks
5 Primo, the Unbounded 10 decks
6 Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin 8 decks
7 Animar, Soul of Elements 7 decks
8 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider 7 decks
9 Kruphix, God of Horizons 6 decks
10 Dina, Essence Brewer 5 decks

Card text

Primordial Hydra

Creature — Hydra

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. This creature has trample as long as it has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it.

0 / 0

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Aleksi Briclot

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.